Transmission

so every time i try to bring up the webui i get the following msg on my browser :

403: Forbidden

Unauthorized IP Address.

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you're editing settings.json, see the 'rpc-whitelist' and 'rpc-whitelist-enabled' entries.

If you're still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

I have tried to adjust the rpc settings and I cannot get anything to fix the problem. The only thing that works is for me to connect to my server and run this command : transmission-daemon -p 9091 -f -T -a 192.168.2.4

The last part is of course the exact ip of my laptop. How to I get access when my server runs the regular daemon at startup?

I am still getting the msg even though stopped the daemon before changing it :

brandon@server:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop
[sudo] password for brandon:
* Stopping bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon [ OK ]
brandon@server:~$ sudo nano ~/.config/transmission/settings.json
brandon@server:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
* Starting bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon [ OK ]
brandon@server:~$

Maybe there is something in my json file thats wrong?

{
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-date": 1284303977,
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"blocklist-updates-enabled": true,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"encryption": 1,
"filter-mode": "show-all",
"incomplete-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"inhibit-desktop-hibernation": false,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"main-window-height": 500,
"main-window-is-maximized": 0,
"main-window-layout-order": "menu,toolbar,filter,list,statusbar",
"main-window-width": 467,
"main-window-x": 50,
"main-window-y": 50,
"message-level": 2,
"minimal-view": false,
"open-dialog-dir": "/home/brandon",
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": 0,
"pex-enabled": true,
"play-download-complete-sound": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"prompt-before-exit": true,
"proxy": "",
"proxy-auth-enabled": false,
"proxy-auth-password": "",
"proxy-auth-username": "",
"proxy-enabled": false,
"proxy-port": 80,
"proxy-type": 0,
"ratio-limit": 2.0000,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": false,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": false,
"rpc-password": "{7a2106cf3cea9d3f0f441f43d0732f80ca117948zOlM4FoI",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "brandon",
"rpc-whitelist": "192.168.2.4",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"show-backup-trackers": false,
"show-desktop-notification": true,
"show-extra-peer-details": false,
"show-filterbar": true,
"show-notification-area-icon": false,
"show-options-window": true,
"show-statusbar": true,
"show-toolbar": true,
"show-tracker-scrapes": false,
"sort-mode": "sort-by-name",
"sort-reversed": false,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"statusbar-stats": "total-ratio",
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 18,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
"user-has-given-informed-consent": true,
"watch-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"watch-dir-enabled": false
}

I have tried putting everything from 0.0.0.0 to *.*.*.* and even 192.168.2.* on the whitelist. Ive tried turning the whitelist enabling to false.

"rpc-enabled": false,

This disables the webui.

I changed it to true, stopping the daemon before doing so, and upon restart it still doesnt work.

I use Transmission 2.04 on ARM9 Kirkwood.

Use

"rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": 1,

in settings.json an you can connect one time.

By killing transmission-daemon your 1 will be replaced with true. On next boot you get an error.

I start transmission daemon with -a *.*.*.*

This works fine.


My S95transmission in /etc/init.d/


/opt/bin/transmission-daemon -a *.*.*.* -g /root/.config/transmission-daemon

Ok you kinda lost me there at the end. So can I change the init.d script to startup like that, or do I have to make a different one? Like I said earlier the command transmission-daemon -p 9091 -f -T -a 192.168.2.4 works so if I could make it run that on startup that would be great, I just dont know how to do it.

thebrandon wrote:I changed it to true, stopping the daemon before doing so, and upon restart it still doesnt work.

Was the whitelist disabled as well?

No but I have tried it enabled and disabled with the same result

thebrandon wrote:No but I have tried it enabled and disabled with the same result

Well, you need to have both the rpc enabled and the whitelist disabled at the same time for this to work. If you disabled the rcp it doesn't matter what you set your whitelist to and if you have a bad whitelist it doesn't matter if you enabled rpc or not.

Ok so I went back and stopped the daemon and made sure rpc was enabled and the whitelist was disabled, here is a copy of my settings :

{
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-date": 1284303977,
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"blocklist-updates-enabled": true,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"encryption": 1,
"filter-mode": "show-all",
"incomplete-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"inhibit-desktop-hibernation": false,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"main-window-height": 500,
"main-window-is-maximized": 0,
"main-window-layout-order": "menu,toolbar,filter,list,statusbar",
"main-window-width": 467,
"main-window-x": 50,
"main-window-y": 50,
"message-level": 2,
"minimal-view": false,
"open-dialog-dir": "/home/brandon",
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": 0,
"pex-enabled": true,
"play-download-complete-sound": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"prompt-before-exit": true,
"proxy": "",
"proxy-auth-enabled": false,
"proxy-auth-password": "",
"proxy-auth-username": "",
"proxy-enabled": false,
"proxy-port": 80,
"proxy-type": 0,
"ratio-limit": 2.0000,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": false,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{7a2106cf3cea9d3f0f441f43d0732f80ca117948zOlM4FoI",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "brandon",
"rpc-whitelist": "192.168.2.4",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
"show-backup-trackers": false,
"show-desktop-notification": true,
"show-extra-peer-details": false,
"show-filterbar": true,
"show-notification-area-icon": false,
"show-options-window": true,
"show-statusbar": true,
"show-toolbar": true,
"show-tracker-scrapes": false,
"sort-mode": "sort-by-name",
"sort-reversed": false,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"statusbar-stats": "total-ratio",
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 18,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
"user-has-given-informed-consent": true,
"watch-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"watch-dir-enabled": false
}

Then rather than just restarting the daemon I rebooted my server and when i went to the address http://192.168.2.3:9091/ I still get the exact same message :

403: Forbidden

Unauthorized IP Address.

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you're editing settings.json, see the 'rpc-whitelist' and 'rpc-whitelist-enabled' entries.

If you're still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

The command I am using to pull up my settings file is sudo gedit ~/.config/transmission/settings.json is it possible that transmission is actually looking at a different settings file somewhere else?

Well I realize one thing I was definitely doing wrong which was editing the file ~/.config/transmission/settings.json when I should have been editing ~/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json but once I realized this I went through and changed it appropriately and yet im still getting the 403 Forbidden message. Here is my ~/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json file.

{
"alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"encryption": 1,
"incomplete-dir": "/home/brandon/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"message-level": 2,
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": 0,
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"proxy": "",
"proxy-auth-enabled": false,
"proxy-auth-password": "",
"proxy-auth-username": "",
"proxy-enabled": false,
"proxy-port": 80,
"proxy-type": 0,
"ratio-limit": 2.0000,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": false,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{d6e9c24411cb941e21beeb7e7f8d98a1c2dc33a5N1YgXXMh",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "",
"rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"umask": 18,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14
}

Should I add a username or leave the whitelist field blank? What about changing the rpc-password to blank?

The daemon probably doesn't use ~/.config/bla if you're running it from the init script. I assume you're on a debian based system so go look at this https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/UnixServer/Debian

Well that definitely did it! I was editing the wrong file, the correct path is /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Thanks for all your help!

x190 wrote:https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Ed ... gFiles#RPC

Please note that daemon must be stopped when editing settings.json in order for changes to stick.

Sorry for responding to a thread 3 months old... but...

`killall -HUP transmission-daemon` will cause transmission-daemon to reload the settings and the changes stick after a service restart.

I have this problem, but i dont know how to solve it

Anyone can help me?

P.S: My english isn't good